Cornwall Christmas Fair at the Eden Project

A two-day charity Christmas fair with around 50 stalls inside the Eden Project, run by volunteers to raise money for the Cornwall Community Foundation.

Each November the Eden Project's main restaurant building is turned over to the Cornwall Christmas Fair, a volunteer-run charity fair with about 50 independent stalls from Cornwall and further afield. Expect gifts, homeware, clothing, jewellery, art and a food hall of Cornish produce; stallholders give a share of their takings to the Cornwall Community Foundation, and the 2025 fair raised £63,000.

The fair opens with a ticketed preview and shopping evening on the Wednesday, which includes supper and a glass of wine, followed by a day fair on the Thursday whose ticket also covers lunch, a glass of wine and entry to the Eden Project. There is also a prize draw and a pre-loved Christmas jumper stall.

The fair is not run by Eden, so an ordinary Eden admission ticket does not get you in: you need a fair ticket, and tickets are non-refundable. From the car parks it is about a ten-minute walk down to the fair, and dogs are not allowed inside the building where it is held. Under-5s go free, but the organisers point out that space between the stalls is tight.